Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Fukuda Family Residence Bathroom and Toilet in Konan, Kochi, is a timber service wing of about 1924 whose partition wall frames the path from gate to door.

The Fukuda Family Residence Gate in Konan, Kochi, is a gate of about 1924 with a concrete frame under a tiled timber roof, an early use of concrete in Kochi.

Built in 1924, the west wing of the Fukoe Residence in Tano, Kochi, is the shop half of a merchant house: earth floor toward the street, cooking range behind it.

The east wing of the Fukoe Residence in Tano, Kochi, is an early Meiji merchant house moved in 1924. Three tile bands shed rain from its plastered east gable.

The Fukoe Residence barn in Tano, Kochi, is listed as one item but built as two sheds. The lower east shed still carries its rare left-handed pan tiles.

A 35-metre cobblestone wall of about 1899 in Nahari, Kochi, whole river stones to the south and split faces to the north. Registered in 2000, visible from the road.

A plaster-walled storehouse of 1899 in Nahari, Kochi, its gables stepped with five courses of Tosa rain-shedding tile. Registered in 2000, now a silk museum.

A 1929 merchant house at a corner of the Shikoku pilgrimage route in Aki, Kochi. Four tiers of drip tiles guard its east wall. Registered in 2013; exterior only.

A 5.8-metre earthen wall in Aki, Kochi, coated in Tosa lime plaster with a corded plaster ridge built against typhoons. Registered in 2013 with the house it adjoins.

Rock-faced tortoise-shell masonry topped with a buttressed brick wall and a concrete wall frames a Kōchi sake brewer's compound; begun early Taishō, registered 2004.

The largest earthen-walled storehouse in a Kōchi sake brewer's compound, built in early Taishō at the back of the site with board-clad north walls. Registered 2004.

An early Taishō rice store in a Kōchi sake brewer's compound, with a stone base, board skirting, plastered walls and tiers of rain-shedding tiles. Registered 2004.

The early Shōwa home of a Kōchi sake-brewing family, with white Tosa-plaster walls, a black-plastered entrance and deep eaves on log purlins, registered in 2004.

An early Shōwa zelkova gate with gable pendants and a washed-aggregate concrete fence before a Kōchi sake brewer's house, registered as exemplary design in 2004.

An early Shōwa concrete gateway scored to resemble stonework, dividing brewery from household at the center of a Kōchi sake brewer's compound; registered 2004.

An early Shōwa sake storehouse with buttressed reinforced-concrete walls, showing how brewery building evolved in a Kōchi brewer's compound. Registered in 2004.

A tiny early Taishō building, first a brewing research room, set against the front wall of a Kōchi sake brewer's compound; hipped roof, stone base. Registered 2004.

A small early Taishō sake storehouse in Hidaka, Kōchi, joined to the Pressing House in an L, its interior doubling as a passage to the next store. Registered 2004.

An early Taishō brewery building in Hidaka, Kōchi, where sake was pressed at one end and koji grown at the other; now the entrance to a hall. Registered 2004.

A detached early Shōwa timber privy behind the Main House of a Kōchi sake brewer's compound, with a king-post roof and an original west face. Registered 2004.

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